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Thailand’s new finance minister, Surapong Suebwonglee: the surprise choice for the job has been impressive |
IT WAS A simple act but, for Asia, an unusual one. If it catches on, it could mark a new era for how economic policy is executed in coup-plagued Thailand. On March 8, in the surroundings of Bangkok’s mock-Venetian palazzo of a Government House, Thais witnessed a rare display of national unity when the country’s shadow finance minister called on his recently elected opposite number in government, who graciously received him.
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